QUOTES by David Byrne
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"Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone - a memory."
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"I cycled when I was at high school, then reconnected with bikes in New York in the late '70s. It was a good way of getting around the clubs and galleries of the Lower East Side and Soho."
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"One knew in advance that life in New York would not be easy, but there were cheap rents in cold-water lofts without heat, and the excitement of being here made up for those hardships. I didn't move to New York to make a fortune."
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"You go to a festival, you know you're not going to play all new material at a festival. The audience is not there for that. I've made that mistake, but you find out pretty quickly."
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"Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life."
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"When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke."
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"I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down."
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"I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching."
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"I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don't censor yourself, you end up with what you're most concerned about, but you haven't filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it."
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"In retrospect, I can see I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!"
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"I always think the everyday is more relevant than anything too grand because we all have to deal with it."
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"From what I've heard, Paris did a little bit more prep work as far as making bike lanes and all of that stuff. They really did it properly, which New York is getting to little by little."
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"One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you're allowed to fail."
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"I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?"
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"I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously."
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"With pop music, the format dictates the form to a big degree. Just think of the pop single. It has endured as a form even in the download age because bands conform to a strict format, and work, often very productively, within the parameters."
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"The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?"
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"I have trouble imagining what I could do that's beyond the practicality of what I can do."
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"Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols."
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"Some artists and indie musicians see Spotify fairly positively - as a way of getting noticed, of getting your music out there where folks can hear it risk-free."
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"All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label."
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"The physical sensation of gliding with the wind in your face is exhilarating. That automatic activity of pedalling, when you have to be awake but not think too much, allows you to let subconscious thoughts bubble up, and things seem to just sort themselves out. And the adrenaline wakes you up if you weren't properly alert."
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"That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?"
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"Performing is a thing in itself, a distinct skill, different from making recordings. And for those who can do it, it's a way to make a living."
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"Most of our lives aren't that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details."
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"I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing."
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"Yeah, I like to keep myself interested - I'll kind of throw myself into some area that I don't completely know or understand, that I'm not adept at, so I'm forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There's a good feeling that comes from that."
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"I've made money, and I've been ripped off. I've had creative freedom, and I've been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will."
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"I'm proud of 'Stop Making Sense,' but it's a little bit of an albatross; I can't compete with it, but I can't ignore it either."
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"With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why."
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"Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for."
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"Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored."
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"I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people."
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"The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out in one day."
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"I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time."
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"There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn't so easy in a car, and you can't cover as much ground walking."
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"I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not going to get too many surprises if you only focus on the stuff that fits inside the box that you know."
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"I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll."
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